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Rosey Hayes, Paul Coffey, Micheal Linehan, Liath Hannon and Mary Lyng PICTURE Vicky Comerford
A ghostly feature film is now filming around the Castlecomer area. Brian Stynes at Hard Bargain Pictures with the help of Clogh's own, Willie Joe Meally, are currently shooting an award winning, Irish Ghost tale screenplay, titled, "A New Landlord" set in in 1903 rural Ireland.
Using the political backdrop of the era, where tenant farmers were finally allowed to buy the land they had worked all their lives with the passing of the 1903 Land Act, into this world, we meet Albert, an heir to one of the many 'big houses' that dotted the the countryside, with rents and businesses to run and a dying wish that he must not sell the family's land, a promise that is upsetting locals to the point of insurrection.
Albert is a man with an already debilitating physical condition, a very bad drug habit, and now, the heir to a home with a destructive spirit will have to face a terrifying truth about his own lineage.
Shooting in Stradbally and Crutt, A New landlord was penned by Brian Stynes with additional material by Emmett O'Brien and has earned high praise from industry entities such as WeScreenplay (Los Angeles) PaperScreenplay (London) where it won Best Character Arc 2024, Industrial Scripts and Unsolicited Scripts (five stars for Concept and Marketability)
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